This widget allows you to associate folders of files to projects and view the contents of the folder, with recently modified files indicated by color. Files can be sorted alphabetically or by modification time, and subfolders can be expanded or contracted. The folder can either be local or on a network machine. There are limits, as the widget depends on web services.

Please read the included read-me carefully and decide if this widget is worthwhile for you - installation is targeted at advanced users or consultants currently.

Download Link:
File Monitor Widget

<EDIT> If for some reason the installer throws an error when clicking Install, here are all the files in a zip file, with installation instructions. Not quite as classy, but it's all there..

File Monitor Zip File


Thanks!
-Eric

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Eric O'Connell,

This is interesting and probably useful, but not what I was hoping for. I was looking for either a connection to BaseCamp projects or to OmniPlan Projects - better yet, both.

I could look into hooking up to a BaseCamp account along these same lines I suppose, but this is intended to show files on a local machine or network - not files hosted on a third-party web server. Although you could certainly set up the cgi on an external server if they let you...

I'll check out the feasibility of interfacing with a basecamp account one of these days, that is interesting..

Thanks!
-Eric

Glad you find the concept of hooking into BaseCamp interesting. What would even make it more interesting, for me, is is there were two more things in DayLite:

• BaseCamp links to DL Projects.
• HUB component to DL Projects.

If you create a custom form for Projects (or perhaps use the Extra fields) the Basecamp idea should be doable -- depending what view you want.

I just did a really quick (and a bit messy) test by setting up a Basecamp account and then noting what the url was and then putting elements of that in the form and then the form calls into the HUD template file - for example:

 <$foreach form model.customRecordSets do$>
  <$if form.customRecordSetDefinition.name == "Basecamp"$>
  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;http://<$form.dictionaryRepresentation.siteaddress$>/
projects/<$form.dictionaryRepresentation.projectnumber$>/todos">
 <$endif$>
<$endforeach do$> 

Here, the custom form is "Basecamp" and the fields are "siteaddress" (in which I just put the root level "company.projectpath.com" and the project number), and the page that gets displayed is the "Todo" page for the given project.

It's messy, because it includes all the information form that page and doesn't fit nicely, but it does allow me to check off or add todos to the site from within the Daylite HUD (i.e., manipulating the stuff that's done with AJAX seems to stay within the HUD - clicking other links on the page switches me over to Safari).

This is a very exciting idea.

I'm trying to wrap my head around the code, but the concept sounds so great.

If it were possible to setup HUD's for Milestones, To Do's and Messages, that would be amazing.

I have trying to figure out a way of integrating basecamp and daylite (one request would be to subscribe to icals) and this might help.

I would also settle for a solution that allowed me to export messages from basecamp and import them in to daylite, even thought that's not as elegent.

Hi Guys,

Just seeing if we had got any further with linking to basecamp?

Would make my life easier, and definitely now as Basecamp is launching high rise.

The DL database will be missing important all over the place.

Charlie

Hi Charlie-

The possibility is being explored, but no guarantees as of yet. There is a big difference between just throwing up the basecamp pages in a widget and actually truly integrating it with Daylite, so that and identifying whether there really is enough demand to justify the dev time is being looked at. There is actually another discussion regarding this in the Request Zone that you might want to contribute to...

Thanks!
-E